Berks Crash Hurts Schuylkill Man

A New Ringgold area man was hurt Saturday morning when his tractor-trailer clipped the rear of a tanker truck in Perry Township, state police at Hamburg said.

Robert R. Douglas, 21, of New Ringgold R.1 was treated at Reading Hospital and Medical Center and released, a spokeswoman said.

Shortly before 8 a.m., Douglas was driving north in the right lane of Route 61, just south of Shoemakersville. When Douglas tried to pass Fred A. Snyder, 54, of Lititz, Douglas clipped the left rear of Snyder's tanker truck, which was in the same lane and carrying 8,850 gallons of gasoline, police said.